It is obvious that Vittoria's religion was of an evangelical type, inconsistent with the dogmas developed by the Tridentine Council; and it is probable that, like her friend Contarini, she advocated a widening rather than a narrowing of Western Christendom.

To bring the Church back to purer morals and sincerity of faith was their aim.

They yearned for a reformation and regeneration from within.
In all these matters, Michelangelo, the devout student of the Bible and the disciple of Savonarola, shared Vittoria's sentiments.

His nature, profoundly and simply religious from the outset, assumed a tone of deeper piety and habitual devotion during the advance of years.

Vittoria Colonna's influence at this period strengthened his Christian emotions, which remained untainted by asceticism or superstition.